Smiles and Powerpoints

The people here really emphasize how little time we have with our summer school students, and it's definitely true. In the five weeks we are here, we only have 17 days of instruction in our classrooms. We need to, in this short time, help them achieve enough to move on to the next grade, since our students predominantly did NOT pass the exams required to continue.

Still, while I understand how urgent everything is, there's a strange feeling at Institute sometimes. It's as if everyone is so wound up, thinking so much about how little time we have, that they're going crazy somehow. Sometimes I feel like if something were to happen, someone in charge could just snap. Weird.

Another thing. We have a lot of training sessions every single day, and EVERY single one of them features a Powerpoint presentation. It's death by PPT. I am going to try to count the number we go through, but I don't think I can count that high.

Regardless, this is a fun experience... definitely.